Rudy Vener’s stories have appeared in Sci-Fi Shorts, Starship Sofa, Sally Port Magazine, and The Beast Hunt Anthology Vol 1. He has won the Connecticut's Tassy Walden Award for New Voices in Children's Literature and been a finalist in the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. Rudy is a retired software engineer, former online pizza marketing entrepreneur, and cheese lover.  He lives with his family and two cats in Connecticut where he is hard at work on more short stories and novels.